Kate Morrissey

Writer

Kate Morrissey, originally from Atlanta, came to The San Diego Union-Tribune in March 2016. She worked first on the DataWatch team before taking on the immigration beat in August 2016.

She has a master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She interned at The Star newspaper in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she covered the start of the #FeesMustFall movement.

Before deciding to pursue a career in journalism, she worked at a software company in Wisconsin making electronic medical record programs. She studied Literary Translation at the University of Georgia for her undergraduate degree and is fluent in French.

You can keep up with the latest in immigration news by liking her Facebook page and following her on Twitter.

Recent Articles

With policies on migrant families under increased public scrutiny following the Trump administration’s rote separation of children from their parents, advocates are pushing back on proposals to increase family detention. A new study released Thursday by the American Immigration Council, a nonprofit...

Three men who were split from their families after they asked for asylum in May at the San Ysidro Port of Entry were released two weeks ago to reunite with their wives and daughters. Their stories of separation are different from the many parents who have been spotlighted in recent headlines through...

Border activists who were stopped by officials for taking photos outside California ports of entry will be able to move forward with a lawsuit against the federal government, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The lawsuit alleges that Customs and Border Protection’s policy requiring advance...

With two months left to go in the fiscal year, San Diego County has received fewer refugees total than it used to receive in a month. Between increased vetting measures and blocks on travel for people from certain countries, refugee arrivals have fallen sharply under the first full fiscal year...

As the Trump administration pushes Congress for billions to fund a border wall, a new government oversight report cautioned that officials need to do more cost analysis and documented planning. The Government Accountability Office report questioned the Trump administration’s method for prioritizing...

When Kathy Smith decided to sponsor an asylum seeker from Russia in her Scripps Ranch home, she didn’t know what do expect. She’d housed two people before him, first an asylum-seeking woman from Costa Rica and then a Canadian woman with Nigerian heritage who was looking for her brother after he...

Government attorneys are asking that the American Civil Liberties Union take the lead in finding hundreds of parents who have not yet been reunited with their children, according to a court document filed Thursday. The filing outlines potential next steps in the case after the government reunited...

Hiring foreign-born workers can increase a company’s innovation, according to a new study from UC San Diego, leading to benefits for consumers in terms of product quality and selection. The working paper found that a ten percent increase in the share of a company’s workers on H-1B visas — temporary...